- Vision [1]
- The committee (BIFAD) assists USAID in the administration of programs authorized by Title XII. More specifically, this includes
participating in the planning, development and implementation of, initiating recommendations for, and monitoring of the Section
297 program components of Title XII through U.S. public universities and their public/private partners. Title XII Section
297 activities support agricultural development in developing countries by: 1) building institutional capacity and human resource
skills, 2)providing long-term U.S. university program support for global collaborative research and learning, 3) involving
U.S. universities more fully in the international network of agricultural science, and 4) providing program support for international
agricultural research centers, special research problems and national research systems. The BIFAD members focus on higher
level strategic oriented issues and the BIFAD subordinate units focus of operational planning and implementation issues. All
BIFAD activities are coordinated through the BIFAD secretariat located in the USAID Office of Development Partners. To facilitate
BIFAD's access to U.S. public university and college expertise, the BIFAD secretariat collaborates closely with the Association
of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the USDA Foreign
Agricultural Service (FAS). The BIFAD Secretariat draws upon other U.S. agency expertise as appropriate.
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